Minute Writing Skills Training - One Day Course

About this Minute Writing Skills Training Course

Minutes are a written document that accurately and objectively records the essence of a meeting.
Minute writing is an important but difficult skill.

The skills of minute writing fall under three main headings:

Making good initial notes, in the meeting, when everyone may be talking at once.

Converting the initial notes into a finished document that is brief, accurate and precise.

Before the next meeting, distributing the minutes to all the relevant people.

Of the three skills listed above, it is the first that is the most difficult.
You need to perfect the art of making good initial notes, in the meeting:

If you can make good initial notes, then everything else follows quickly from that.
If your initial notes are wrong: then everything else will be equally bad.

This course is designed to help you take accurate notes so that you can create accurate minutes.

Really enjoyed the course and got a lot out of it. It had practical tools to use and not just a lot of words. Enjoyed the "Positive Mental Attitude" section and will put it into practice. The trainer's presentation was excellent, good documentation, very enjoyable.

Our Open Training Courses run in: London, Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol, Maidstone, Kent, Glasgow, Scotland, Leeds, Gloucestershire.
In-house courses can be run in the UK or worldwide to suit you.

The course content was well presented. Lots of information and useful on both a work and personal level. Well balanced use of material and very useful materials to use – take forward in my future goals. The trainer’s presentation was very clear and informative. Knows his material very well. The booklet will help aid us in all that we learnt and provide a very useful reference when you find yourself DRIFTING!

Minute Writing Skills Training - Day One - PM

A practical exercise designed to put to the test, the skills covered so far

Managing the delegates.

Use the question 'How would you like me to minute that?'

Have a “Pre-meeting meeting” with the chairperson

The meeting delegates can help you or hinder you.

Train the chairperson to be your ally

The importance of the agenda

The environment:
Set the room up to your advantage.

Name placements

Air

Light

Water

Freedom from distractions

Use the ABC principle:
Accurate, Brief and Clear

Preparation is essential:

Get there early

Get your things organised and in good order

Get your mind into the right mood

Writing the finished minutes

Use the ABC principle: Accurate, Brief and Clear

Some basics of grammar

A sentence is a statement that communicates a complete thought.

All sentences need at least a subject and a verb.

Use specific subject nouns

Use specific verbs

Avoid ambiguity

Decide: active or passive

Practice exercises

Three ways to write the final notes

Transcript: verbatim

Main points

Action Summary

Last big training exercise

Learning notes from the practice

Summary and action plan

Training course content was excellent, a lot of learning styles, formulas to put into use within the work place and in my personal life. Trainer's presentation was excellent. Easy to follow, I like the training motivation provided.

The Course Training Method

The training method follows this general pattern - the training is very interactive and interesting:

The trainer gives a clear explanation of the point in question with specific examples.

Then, the delegates practice by doing an exercise with each other.

The delegates practice by doing an exercise with the trainer.

All points are supported with full written notes to take away.

Delegates are asked to write down an associated action, for each point made.
(At the end of the day, we have about twenty such actions, from which the delegates choose six which are the most personally meaningful).

Note: we do not believe in placing people in any situation of embarrassment by demanding that they 'perform' in front of the whole group. So you can relax: come on this course and be at ease; ready to learn new skills!

In-House Training Course Pricing and Proposal

This course is also available from just £1,950 +VAT per day as a bespoke in-house group training course in the UK and worldwide.

It has been designed to provide a similar experience to our open courses, however we can tailor the content to fit your specific needs. In-House Group training costs from just £1,950 +VAT per day for up to 20 delegates (international training price varies).

This price includes:

Full days training

Full course training manual

Personal written action plans

Access to the post course portal

Three months free telephone coaching

Plus, hotel accommodation for trainer if necessary. (Premier Inn type: not the Hilton!)

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